Industrial Noise affects our Whales
Marine scientists have discovered that underwater noise has an impact and adversly affects whales almost 200km away. In light of the news filtering in of prospecting rights been given for possible mining off the sensitive Zululand coast, this is something that should be strongly considered while debating the impact on our environment. Given that this [...]
Green Life Online Store
Have a look GreenLifeStore, a great online store promoting eco friendly and sustainable products, from eco disposable packaging to green toys. Based in Cape Town, they are proving to be innovative and trendsetting at the same time, and have the following to say: Environment is an important area of concern for every person…every industry, every [...]
Court order for Karoo anti-fracking group
This week saw a win for the Karoo Action Group in their fight to prevent fracking in the Karoo regioin. We pick up this story published in the Business Day with their permission: “A PRETORIA judge yesterday ordered Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu to supply anti-fracking lobby group Treasure the Karoo Action Group with an [...]
Zululand Coast Offshore Mining Threat
Zululanders are slowly waking up to the news of the possibility of the equivalent of an open cast mine off the coast that could have dire consequences to the marine ecology of the entire north coast, stretching into Mozambique. We pick up on this article by Tony Carnie, environment writer for The Mercury: THE FUTURE [...]
The Fracking Saga Continues
The decision by Sasol not to persue hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the Karoo has been a welcome one in the fight against this dirty and unsafe practice. This is a continuing and pressing problem of international importance. It has the potential of jeopardizing our waterways, as part of the process includes injecting toxic chemicals [...]
Plastic Bags still our national flower…..
Our quest to go green without moving into a cave, and our continuous search for eco friendly products, has lead us to the online eco store sustainable.co.za They put across a strong argument for the total abolition of plastic bags, and we strongly agree with them on this. Here is an article from their site. [...]
Invitation to strategic planning session
I would like to encourage everyone to take note of the following invitation regarding future development in our area and to get in touch with the planners to book your place: Kindly RSVP with Ms Kirsten Gallaher at Tel: Tel: 031 566 4368 or Email: kirsten.gallaher@mottmac.com Herewith invite to Review Workshop which may be of [...]
The Green Building
I receive a regular newsletter from The Green Building, a South African e-journal highlighting issues around environmental building methods and progress that is being made in this field. Here is their latest letter from the editor Llewellyn van Wyk: In many ways 2011 can be described as the coming-of-age of green building. Twenty-one years ago [...]
Barefoot Community Works
Barefoot Community Works, an NGO operating near Sodwana on our north coast, recently ran this competition with huge success. We need more ideas like this to get the community involved from a young age in understanding the benefits of recycling, and the impact we are having on our environment. Although the competition is over, have [...]
Climate Change progress being made
A micro hydro power project in Peru that delivers electricity and education to the local population; a solar energy retrofit in South Africa that brings not just clean energy, but jobs to a poor township; these are some of the development benefits revealed in analyses being conducted by the UNFCCC secretariat on Clean Development Mechanism [...]
